Researchers Witness Assembly Of Molecules Critical To Protein Function
Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 17:21
in Biology & Nature
Iron-sulfur clusters are critical to life on earth. They are necessary for protein function in cellular processes, such as respiration in humans and other organisms and photosynthesis by plants. A research group has isolated proteins responsible for the iron-sulfur cluster assembly process and witnessed the necessary protein interactions in vivo -- within a cell.